{"id":44823,"date":"2022-08-27T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyc.co.uk\/?p=44823"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:20:54","slug":"marchwood-weekend-cruise-13th-14th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyc.co.uk\/2022\/08\/27\/marchwood-weekend-cruise-13th-14th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchwood Weekend Cruise 13th-14th August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual weekend cruise to Marchwood Yacht Club took place over the sunny and hot weekend of 13th-14th August. Some participants met up in the club for the 2nd Friday Social on Friday night and turned in that night with no weather worries, as light winds and hot sunshine were forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marchwood Yacht Club is a small member run club 30nm away from CYC at the top end of Southampton Water, with walk ashore berthing for visitors. It is a very different destination from Solent marinas, with the chance to be \u2018up close and personal\u2019 with both cruise and container ships. It affords the opportunity to sail right up Southampton water and with berthing for \u00a315 per night, whatever the size of yacht, and bar prices that are unbelievably cheap, some visitors think they\u2019ve died and gone to Heaven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a bit of a jiggle and a juggle we managed to sort out berthing for 19 yachts who all arrived during late morning and afternoon. Sadly, for the first time in the 12 or so years we\u2019ve been running the cruise, we couldn\u2019t accommodate all who wished to come. The winds were light in the early part of the day but picked up mid-morning allowing some to enjoy a good downwind sail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazel, Marchwood\u2019s OOD, was on hand to welcome everyone and assist with berthing. With a normal prevailing westerly wind Marchwood is quite sheltered, but the wind was from the North East and was ‘quite lively’, which didn\u2019t make berthing easy, but with plenty of hands to help everyone was safely moored.  In fact, some of the last yachts in had so much assistance and advice that the in-bound crews ears and indeed the pontoons were in danger of being overloaded!<\/p>\n\n\n\n